Pinboard (andrewducker)
https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/public/
recent bookmarks from andrewduckerEssays on Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies2023-05-05T22:14:35+00:00
https://typesetinthefuture.com/
andrewduckermovies font scifi viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9b304e412b55/Asking engineers what they think of software engineering2021-01-19T08:52:57+00:00
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/are-we-really-engineers/
andrewduckersoftwareengineering software engineering society regulation history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6ca3258a47e7/Who Invented the Alphabet?2021-01-12T23:07:11+00:00
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-alphabet-180976520/
andrewduckerEgypt middle_east history language writing viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0fb80aba6a12/Covenants, Easements & Wayleaves: The Hidden Urban Interfaces Which Shape London2020-10-27T20:59:47+00:00
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/covenants-easements-wayleaves-the-hidden-urban-interfaces-which-shape-london-part-1/
andrewduckertube London transport law architecture history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e0304e61a7f9/Why almost every terminal in the world is 80×252019-10-24T13:05:34+00:00
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25/
andrewduckerhistory computers viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c50cefb8173c/How do kettles automatically switch themselves off?2019-10-11T08:16:16+00:00
https://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/24531842-e997-4adb-b023-f19733793727
andrewduckerviaFanf water Technology heathttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dde8881a1ae4/What organisational structures allow DevOps to flourish (or doom it)2019-09-28T19:06:35+00:00
https://web.devopstopologies.com/
andrewduckerdevelopment software organisation support viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c9b6b42f0022/Promising new hard disk technology.2019-09-24T21:41:13+00:00
https://blog.dshr.org/2019/09/promising-new-hard-disk-technology.html
andrewduckerhardware harddrive viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cd99e0b69924/Can science survive without statistical significance?2019-09-07T10:50:58+00:00
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statisticians-standard-measure-significance-p-values
andrewduckerstatistics research viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6f5e0a15ae1d/What really happened in the UK blackouts?2019-09-01T16:12:34+00:00
https://mitchoneill.com/blog/uk-blackouts-interim-report/
andrewduckerelectricity fail analysis UK viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8ef48741b5be/A flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers.2019-08-26T06:20:31+00:00
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
andrewduckerreading USA viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1ef2c5f042e0/What The Code of Hammurabi Can Teach Us About Hardware and Software Liability2019-08-25T12:38:57+00:00
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/what-the-code-of-hammurabi-can-teach-us-about-hardware-and-software-liability/
andrewduckerresponsibility history software viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fcd6a21f22fd/Capitalism, elasticity, and coercion2019-08-25T06:10:01+00:00
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/does-capital-imply-coercion/
andrewduckereconomics society land capitalism viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cf451698f008/The Internet golden age that wasn't.2019-07-25T13:57:03+00:00
http://cybersalon.org/the-internet-that-wasnt-net-wars-by-wendy-grossman/
andrewduckerinternet history myths viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3e9241df0e9a/An astrobiologist tries cooking in Antarctica at -70ºC.2019-07-02T13:00:01+00:00
https://www.boredpanda.com/cooking-food-antarctica-cyprien-verseux/
andrewduckerviaFanf antarctic cooking temperaturehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b8264e40192f/The Petrie multiplier: how oppression is amplified against minorities.2019-06-24T20:45:17+00:00
https://twitter.com/ImplausibleGrrl/status/1142764225808523270
andrewduckerminorities mathematics society bigotry viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fb71177f8c0d/LaTeX. How Donald Knuth’s 1978 typesetting program became one of the oldest still-active open-source projects and revolutionized technical publishing along the way2019-05-25T15:09:17+00:00
https://increment.com/open-source/the-lingua-franca-of-latex/
andrewduckertechnology design publishing history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b51b883ae39f/The 3.5% rule: a threshold of success for non-violent protest.2019-05-16T20:33:47+00:00
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
andrewduckerprotests violence peace viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b0902bc6ef60/Long-distance running and evolution: Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats.2019-04-17T10:27:09+00:00
https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/long-distance-running-and-evolution-why-humans-can-outrun-horses-but-cant-jump-higher-than-cats.html?via=gdpr-consent
andrewduckerhumans evolution sports running viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:56a57c767389/What is Amazon?2019-03-17T20:08:44+00:00
https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/
andrewduckeramazon business technology viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b687cc579da6/The magical thinking of guys who love logic.2019-02-24T16:02:42+00:00
https://theoutline.com/post/7083/the-magical-thinking-of-guys-who-love-logic?zd=1&zi=27b6g3nc
andrewduckerlogic viaFanf Internet discussion fail societyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c8344ade968b/Differential privacy: using randomness to protect individuals when releasing data2019-02-19T09:27:43+00:00
https://accuracyandprivacy.substack.com/p/differential-privacy-an-easy-case
andrewduckerprivacy random viaFanf datahttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dcfb6ea4b9fb/The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing (1839)2019-02-12T08:46:34+00:00
http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2245
andrewduckerhistory computers technology craftwork art viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:110ae5869581/Analysis: Why the UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 38% since 19902019-02-05T14:30:35+00:00
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-uks-co2-emissions-have-fallen-38-since-1990
andrewduckerco2 uk viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9e92fe317029/Forget passion - find the hard work you're willing to do2019-01-11T11:28:57+00:00
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-21T09_53_29.htm
andrewduckerviaFanf advice life workhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3a4798544cee/Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?2019-01-06T21:17:49+00:00
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/em/dyson.pdf
andrewduckerphysics knowledge viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8695c6e197b8/Towards a Better Pythagorean Cup2019-01-05T23:47:36+00:00
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/pythagorean-cup.html
andrewduckerdesign physics viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fee381d5b40c/LEGO Porsche crashing in slow motion with 1000 fps2019-01-05T18:42:18+00:00
https://youtu.be/dCPWPj4JHqg
andrewduckerslowmotion car lego video viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0d5fe1d65205/The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got2018-12-17T14:45:20+00:00
http://russolsen.com/articles/2012/08/09/the-best-programming-advice-i-ever-got.html
andrewduckerprogramming advice viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:700aca3b3db4/A History of Waterfall Software Development2018-12-14T09:51:40+00:00
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html
andrewduckersoftware development history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5081576994e0/The autistic view of the world is not the neurotypical cliché2018-12-10T21:34:09+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/the-autistic-view-of-the-world-is-not-the-neurotypical-cliche
andrewduckerautism stereotypes fiction viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:04b99e2eccb7/The Technology That Changed Air Travel2018-12-10T21:10:53+00:00
https://tryretool.com/blog/air-travel-software/
andrewduckerairplanes travel history technology computers xml viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:faffe2112ba5/Who wants science themed dresses with pockets?2018-12-09T18:26:54+00:00
https://svahausa.com/collections/adults-dresses
andrewduckerscience clothing viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3c577746f46c/The World's Most Efficient Languages2018-12-02T17:38:53+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/
andrewduckerlanguage viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dc9cc25451e1/Oral Tradition - The Oldest True Stories in the World Are Over 10,000 years old2018-10-21T20:03:44+00:00
https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/
andrewduckerstories history viaFanf australiahttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:38cd2e30188c/Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws2018-09-30T10:13:23+00:00
http://uk.reuters.com/article/estonia-gemalto/estonia-sues-gemalto-for-152-mln-euros-over-id-card-flaws-idUKL8N1WD5JZ
andrewduckerEstonia identity security fail fraud viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ed62433cd3c6/Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies2018-08-31T11:06:32+00:00
https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
andrewduckerocean shipping physics materials viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:191a12f27e7b/Stop telling women how they should talk2018-08-28T08:12:41+00:00
https://mashable.com/2018/08/22/vocal-fry-upspeak-women/?europe=true
andrewduckerwomen voice viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5e58a1dd375d/The Science Behind Non-Newtonian Noodles2018-08-01T10:49:20+00:00
http://modernistcuisine.com/2014/03/science-of-non-newtonian-noodles/
andrewduckerphysics food china viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bb48a5eb54a1/First, let's fire all the managers.2018-05-12T10:18:31+00:00
https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers
andrewduckermanagement business organisation viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cce517861108/The myth of the male bumbler2018-03-25T10:07:51+00:00
http://theweek.com/articles/737056/myth-male-bumbler
andrewduckerabuse men viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e955fafae88a/Decoding the Signals In The Prime Minister's Speech on the Russian Poisoning of Sergei Skripal2018-03-15T20:58:00+00:00
https://www.lawfareblog.com/uk-prime-ministers-speech-russian-poisoning-sergei-skripal-decoding-signals
andrewduckerRussia UK diplomacy viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d0fa3d182443/Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression2018-03-10T21:45:00+00:00
https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-effective-way-treat-depression/
andrewduckersleep depression viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:81337a451393/"When That Guy Died on My Show"2018-03-10T21:39:50+00:00
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/when-that-guy-died-on-my-show/
andrewduckerTV death viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7574c3f7c92f/The male glance: how we approach male vs. female work is ruining our ability to see good art.2018-03-07T22:09:43+00:00
http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/03/male-glance
andrewduckerart gender society patriarchy viaFanf fictionhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:55d3f4046de5/Musical tastes form when puberty hits2018-02-12T11:01:56+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-songs.html
andrewduckermusic puberty age viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6eaa58e4cf1c/A techie’s rough guide to GDPR2018-01-30T17:05:27+00:00
https://www.cennydd.com/writing/a-techies-rough-guide-to-gdpr
andrewduckerprivacy technology Europe law viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:601ee47cd480/What it’s like being a creative professional and a mother.2018-01-13T13:23:23+00:00
https://twitter.com/mstiefvater/status/951868630786084865?s=09
andrewduckerfunny fantasy motherhood advice viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e90bab744282/Against Brilliant Jerks2017-11-14T09:28:51+00:00
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.html
andrewduckersociety behaviour teams viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dda18244e83f/The Post-Weinstein Reckoning2017-11-14T08:57:53+00:00
https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/rebecca-traister-on-the-post-weinstein-reckoning.html
andrewduckerwomen abuse society viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0da46dcfa803/"We Don't Do That Here"2017-10-05T22:09:35+00:00
http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html
andrewduckersociety work viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b7161654f088/The pragmatic case for moving Britain’s capital to Manchester2017-09-30T11:45:09+00:00
https://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2017/02/go-north
andrewduckeruk politics viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:267b29d583ab/It's ok to be stuck. And you need to be ok with that2017-09-25T21:52:06+00:00
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/09/20/the-state-of-being-stuck/
andrewduckerpsychology learning mathematics viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:21a798c3c020/Superaccurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 20182017-09-23T13:33:31+00:00
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/superaccurate-gps-chips-coming-to-smartphones-in-2018
andrewduckerGPS location phones viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f0638fe35c4e/How to Win a War on Drugs2017-09-22T20:55:32+00:00
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/sunday/portugal-drug-decriminalization.html
andrewduckerdrugs portugal viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8295e25d7706/Weather forecasting is better than it’s ever been.2017-09-21T20:38:25+00:00
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/weather_forecasting_is_better_than_it_s_ever_been.html
andrewduckerviaFanf weatherhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:62939881ce5f/Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing?2017-09-20T13:45:36+00:00
http://ottocr.at/brexit-negotiations-how-is-the-uk-doing/
andrewduckeruk Europe viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f28998454df5/Rising CO2 levels mean plants have less nutrients in them2017-09-16T15:32:13+00:00
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511?lo=ap_a1
andrewduckerviaFanf plants co2 food OhForFucksSake doomhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d94596191bfa/The Voynich manuscript has probably not been solved?2017-09-10T17:45:32+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/has-the-voynich-manuscript-really-been-solved/539310/
andrewduckerhistory viaFanf encryptionhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:417aed993aa3/Where in Europe does an electric car reduce pollution?2017-08-27T15:23:11+00:00
https://jakubmarian.com/where-in-europe-is-electric-car-a-good-idea/
andrewduckercars co2 pollution Europe electricity viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:08a414dafc85/Hope Lies In Rebellion — Some Analysis Of “The Music of Rogue One”2017-08-26T16:49:41+00:00
http://houseorgana.tumblr.com/post/159875297814/some-highlights-from-the-music-of-rogue-one
andrewduckermusic StarWars viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b330334756df/Here at the End of All Things : on losing oneself in in maps of fantasy worlds2017-08-25T08:23:28+00:00
https://longreads.com/2017/08/24/fantasy-maps-game-of-thrones/
andrewduckerfantasy maps viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4d017ed3f576/How do I improve my storytelling?2017-08-20T21:44:58+00:00
http://ask.metafilter.com/312581/How-do-I-improve-my-storytelling
andrewduckerstorytelling writing viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a9f03f455e26/A theory of jerks. (Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around?)2017-08-14T08:53:37+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/so-you-re-surrounded-by-idiots-guess-who-the-real-jerk-is
andrewduckerpsychology society behaviour viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:86bcaeb1c116/Libor is a made up number2017-08-13T08:28:10+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-27/the-end-of-libor-and-non-voting-stock
andrewduckerfinance viaFanf wtfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:01d5e750af90/LIBOR, a Crucial Financial Benchmark, Is a Lie2017-08-13T08:24:39+00:00
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-is-libor-crucial-financial-benchmark-a-lie-w497305
andrewduckerfinance viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:203da1bd9297/Why don't more physicists subscribe to Pilot Wave Theory2017-08-08T07:33:23+00:00
https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-pilot-wave-theory
andrewduckerquantum viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b5c26e586bc2/Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.2017-08-07T21:46:47+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pilot-wave-theory-gains-experimental-support-20160516
andrewduckerquantum viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:caa3b6d71380/The stinkpipes of London2017-07-16T12:55:11+00:00
https://londonist.com/2016/08/the-victorian-structures-hidden-in-plain-sight
andrewduckerlondon waste design history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e148491fa58f/The Portlandification of Pot2017-04-07T07:55:36+00:00
http://waxy.org/2017/04/the-portlandification-of-pot/
andrewduckermarijuana usa viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4d5fc6561c9b/